Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82757 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007:19
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status, earnings, education etc.), we follow those affected until 1999. We compare this with the corresponding development of a large sample other workers who lost their jobs because of plant closures in 1987–88 but who did not receive extraordinary measures. Estimations of the net effect of the extraordinary measures find that they did have positive long-term effects for the displaced shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison group.
Subjects: 
involuntary job loss
displacement
plant closures
cutbacks
labour market policy
employment
unemployment
earnings
JEL: 
J65
J68
L62
L72
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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